Told to have sex the night before iui?

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evb2014 wrote:

Has anyone else been told this? My RE said to trigger and have sex tonight, iui following morning, sex that night at home, then second iui the next morning? Doesn't that seem a bit much? Anyone else? :/

I suppose it depends on your diagnosis. For us, it was severe male factor (low count and binding) so we were advised to abstain for 2-3 days before. We did do two rounds of IUI, one day and then the next, but the counts the second day were always sooo much lower. That being said, I have other friends with unexplained infertility or other issues not affecting sperm count, and they were instructed to have sex the night before their IUI.

I would definitely do what your doctor says. If you don't have sperm issues (count, motility, morphology etc), then it will be no issues getting enough sperm for the IUI. If there are male factor infertility issues, than I would ask the RE again since sperm needs some time to regenerate. But for someone who produced over average, it is no problem to ehaculate every 12 hours. It appears that he designed a a back to back IUI with intercourse which is popular for people without male factor.

Noooooo!!!!!!! If your partner is going in tomorrow to "drop off", he needs to abstain for about 48 hrs so he has a good sample! You should do it the evening of the IUI and the next day, just to make sure you covered your ovulation. No way to doing it the night before!